The Cambridge Cultural History of Britain

This nine-volume survey, edited by Boris Ford and written by many hands, treats the arts in Britain from prehistory to the late twentieth century. Each book covers a period - early Britain, the Middle Ages, the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, the Romantic age, Victorian, early twentieth-century, and modern Britain - and places literature, music, architecture, painting, and related crafts in their social setting. Essays by specialists sit beside illustrations of buildings and objects. There is no single thesis binding every chapter. The set is a period-by-period cultural history, not a political chronicle.

Bound in dark blue cloth. Dark blue nine-volume slipcase. "Produced exclusively for the Folio Society" by Cambridge University Press.